Check out the new book released by Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Aaron B. Daniels titled,Jungian Crime Scene Analysis: An Imaginal Investigation.

Mark your calendars: Daniels will visit NEC Concord on April 23 at 6 PM where he will promote his new book and have limited copies available for purchase by cash and check only.

About the Book

This book presents the serial killer as having ‘imagopathy’ – that is, a disorder of the imagination – manifested through such deficiencies as failure of empathy, rigid fantasies, and unresolved projections. The author argues that this disorder is a form of failed alchemy. His study challenges long-held assumptions that the Jungian concept of individuation is a purely healthful drive. Serial killers are unable to form insight after projecting untenable material onto their victims. Criminal profilers must therefore effect that insight informed by their own reactions to violent crime scene imagery, using what the author asserts is a form of Jung’s ‘active imagination’. This book posits sexual homicides as irrational shadow images in our rationalistic modern culture. Consequently, profilers bridge conscious and unconscious for the inexorably splintered killer as well as the culture at large.

After establishing the dark fictional and non-fictional landscape of criminal profiling, Jungian Crime Scene Analysis examines how two experts, John Douglas and Robert Ressler, tacitly apply imaginal techniques in order to gather evidence about their quarries. Jungian approaches to active imagination and counter transference help to define this forensic project, grounded in the archetypal psychology concept of image.

About the Author

Aaron B. Daniels teaches clinical psychology at New England College in New Hampshire. He holds degrees from: Baldwin Wallace College (BA); Duquesne University (MA), where he studied existential phenomenology; and Pacifica Graduate Institute (PhD), where his degree emphasized the depth tradition. After working for a decade in private and public practice, he transitioned into academia. His previous two works, Imaginal Reality, Volume One: Journey to the Voids and Imaginal Reality, Volume Two: Voidcraft both appeared in 2011. Written with Laura M. Daniels, they are syntheses of imaginal psychology with existential principles.

To purchase, come to the signing at NEC Concord, visit your local bookstore or online at Amazon.